On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:28:42 -0800 Russell D Brunelle <rdb...@uw.edu> wrote:
> If you have a good idea, then there's something special (I'm almost > tempted to say "sacred") about committing it to paper. > > The emergence of abstract thinking was an early inflection point in > the development of our species. The invention of written language was > another. The invention of the printing press was yet another. > > More recently, LaTeX made professional typesetting standards > available for free, and even more recently LyX made using those > standards as easy as using anything else. > > I'm not saying that LyX is as significant as the printing press, only > that there's an unbroken stream of progress which it's a proud part > of, and for that reason I feel proud about using it. > > So, why do YOU love LyX? > > Russell For these reasons, in approximately this order: * Ease of authoring, authoring speed * Stability, doesn't lose data when it crashes * Versatile * Native format human readable and program parsable * Friendly, helpful community * I like LaTeX output and LyX is a good LaTeX front end SteveT
